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The briefest and truest way of describing Lombard Street is to say that it is by far the greatest combination of economical power and economical delicacy that the world has ever seen.
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Moran, M. (1986). The Politics of Lombard Street. In: The Politics of Banking. Studies in Policy-Making. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18242-8_2
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